Cyber security conference to open in London
The Drum
This high-quality information could be used for blackmail, illegal gains and even sold to terrorists.” Russia and China – two states accused of being lead sponsors of illicit online activity, are both attending the conference. Cyber security conference ...

Prime Minister's speech on cyber security
Herald de Paris
Third, we are here because international cyber security is a real and pressing concern. Let us be frank. Every day we see attempts on an industrial scale to steal government secrets – information of interest to nation states, not just commercial ...

Cybersecurity Innovation Works from the Inside Out at SAIC
CIO
Cybersecurity is both a differentiator for us in the marketplace and an important support for our own enterprise. With that in mind, we've made acquisitions over the past few years of small entrepreneurial cybersecurity companies, whose capabilities, ...

London hosts cyber-security forum
Aljazeera.com
UK conference aims to find ways to get nations to work together against growing cyber threat. \With nations becoming increasingly susceptible to cyber-attacks, the British government is holding a conference to address the growing threat. ...

Kudelski major restructure, 270 jobs cut
Advanced Television
Additionally, by creating a Cybersecurity unit, the Kudelski Group addresses the demand for security and data protection in the Internet sphere. As from January 2012, the Executive Management of the Group will be simplified and reduced to four members ...

A war marked by fatalism and denial
Financial Times
By Joseph Menn While large companies around the world realise that cybersecurity weaknesses are a growing threat, they are not increasing spending to meet the challenge, according to recent surveys. In a PwC poll of thousands of executives, ...

SEC filings: Businesses told to reveal true scale of losses
Financial Times
On October 13, the staff of the US Securities and Exchange Commission issued extensive guidelines to companies that are publicly traded in the country, spelling out when and how both pastcybersecurity breaches and the risk of future ones should be ...

Chinese cyber attack targets Fortune 100 chemical firms: report
Financial Post
Ottawa, for its part, has thus far poured about $90-million into its 2010 Cyber Security Strategy being run by Public Safety Canada. Yet what appears to be missing from that strategy is an effort to ensure those in the private sector — particularly ...

Cybrix Group Wages Battle For Security In Neutral Switzerland
PR Web (press release)
Cybrix Group, a cyber-security and technology services firm, announced today that its reach is expanding to international markets. A Europe-based holding company engaged Cybrix Group to perform a complete security audit and vulnerability assessment at ...

Cyber Attacks: Can the Small Biz Cyber Planner Help You?
Infoboom
A recent study by Symantec and the National Cyber Security Alliance revealed that only 52 percent of small businesses have a cyber security plan in place, according to a recent Reuters article. Symantec's Cheryl McGuire says, "Forty percent of all ...

White House Pushes Cyberlaw as Online Crooks Frolic
TechNewsWorld
The Obama administration is urging Congress to pass cybersecurity legislation the White House first proposed in May. That proposal incorporates many of the ideas of Senate and House leaders, White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Howard Schmidt pointed ...

Regulation: Lawmakers asked to step into digital age
Financial Times
By Alan Rappeport US cybersecurity experts say that tough regulations are needed to encourage companies to work harder to protect the data of their customers. However, they fear that government gridlock is allowing the issue to languish. ...

Comic: Cybersecurity
TucsonSentinel.com
Last year, the Pentagon appointed Gen. Keith Alexander to run the US Cyber Command division, responsible for the defense of American military computer networks, as well as offensive measures against opposing forces. Although it habitually denies its ...

Nations discuss cyber security – The Guardian | Blackmere Consulting
By Blackmere
Nations discuss cyber security – The Guardian. Published November 1, 2011. Representatives of 60 nations will gather in London in an attempt to secure the benefits of the internet amid concern about rising levels of cyber attacks and online ...
Blackmere Consulting

SEC: Businesses Need to Disclose More about Cybersecurity ...
By Michael Wilt
On October 13, the SEC's Division of Corporation Finance published a Disclosure Guidance relating to cyber security. The basic thesis of the guidance is that while current requirements do not explicitly refer to cybersecurity, it is the Division's ...
The Legal Pulse

Nations discuss cyber security | Cyber War News
By Anonymously
Behind the scenes, however, there are tensions, and Baroness Neville-Jones, the Prime Minister's special representative to business on cyber security, on Monday publicly accused China and Russia – who are both attending the conference ...
Cyber War News

In Search of Cybersecurity | The Diplomacist
By Mason Meredith
It is widely speculated that the United States probably has an edge in cyber-offensive capabilities, but until they fix national cybersecurity those capabilities are useless. However, if the 2011 Department of Defense Strategy for Operating in ...
The Diplomacist

Government calls cyber security conference « BT Viewpoint ...
By DanielBooth
It aims to bring together political leaders, such as US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and EU digital supremo Neelie Kroes, with leading cybersecurity experts and technology entrepreneurs such as Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales and Cisco ...
BT Viewpoint. Business insight,...

U.S. Department of State Office of the CIO Wins 2011 National ...
... National Cybersecurity Innovation Award for significantly improving the effectiveness of the nation'scyber security for creating, deploying and sharing the Department of State's unique risk scoring program, which continuously monitors more ...
ITbriefing.net

Mark Collins - Cyber Security–and the Dragon
By admin
On Monday, Baroness Neville-Jones, the prime minister's special representative to business on cybersecurity, said Russia and China - who are both attending the conference - were some of the worst culprits involved in cyber-attacks. And Iain ...
The 3Ds Blog

Rogue Networks: Combating Hackers! « MDbizMedia
By MDbizMedia
The Cync Program, now a part of bwtech's Advantage Incubator, will allow companies to draw from UMBC's research, bwtech's incubation experience and Northrop Grumman's resources to develop solutions to counter cyber security threats. Breachbox has been developed ... With the government's focus on cybersecurity, this area has a really high concentration of people and customers that are looking to solve a lot of the hard cybersecurity problems. So, this is the natural place to set ...
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